Word: breach
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...young Pole, John Paul II saw the Holocaust up close, and he grasped its radical significance for the church. Healing the ancient breach with Judaism became the most important project of his pontificate: rooting out anti-Semitic themes from Christian educational materials; visiting synagogues; lifting up the Holocaust as a permanent point of moral reckoning; affirming the right of Jews to be at home in Israel, which he formally recognized in 1994. In reverencing the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2000, the Pope reversed the ancient Christian denigration of the Temple of Israel, renouncing forever the idea that because Jesus...
...March 7 statement announcing that HBS would reject the applicants who used this method, Dean of HBS Kim B. Clark called their actions “unethical at best—-a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization...
...Dean Kim B. Clark was emphatic in saying the applicants’ actions had been “unethical at best—a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization,” flatly denying admission to the 119. Although Carnegie Mellon and MIT Sloan also rejected those who checked their decisions early, other schools did not act so rashly. Stanford, for example, is reevaluating each applicant in question, giving them a chance to explain themselves...
...discovery prompted immediate controversy; disbelievers quickly emerged. Among them was Professor Teuku Jacob, a senior Indonesian palaeontologist, who was not part of the discovery team. Jacob argued that the bones were merely those of a small human with an abnormally small head. Late last year, in breach of a memorandum of understanding between Australian and Indonesian discoverers, Jacob removed the bones to his own laboratory - a move many believed was aimed at proving his own theory. That act ignited a public feud. But last month, when the bones were returned, the row turned nasty...
...right say freedom is exactly what they want to safeguard. "We are having witch hunts," says Hagedorn. A Metro State colleague, ethnic-studies professor Oneida Meranto, came under attack last winter after clashing with Republicans in her class. (She was later reprimanded not for her political views but for breach of privacy when she said that one of the complainants was going to flunk her class...